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Is Drake’s ‘Nokia’ the Biggest Threat to Kendrick Lamar & SZA’s Hot 100 Supremacy?

In this week’s The Contenders, a resurgent Drake's "Nokia" looks to knock Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "Luther" from its Hot 100 perch.

This week, for the upcoming Billboard Hot 100 dated April 19, we look at a number of albums threatening to end the seven-week reign of Kendrick Lamar & SZA’s “Luther” — led by a recent rival’s own runaway hit. The California singer-songwriter has been climbing the Hot 100 in recent weeks with his ballad “Ordinary” — which first took off on TikTok, and then exploded after he performed it on a reunion episode for season eight of Netflix’s hit reality show Love Is Blind. The song is still performing very well on DSPs, and has already started making inroads at radio, where it is likely to jump into the Country Airplay top 40 next week – meaning it could be peaking right around the time Wallen releases his highly anticipated fourth album I’m the Problem next month.

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